On Feb­ru­ary 22nd, Mar­i­lyn and I launched Sus­pended Image™ with a much antic­i­pated “beauty and fash­ion” shoot at Seat­tle City Hall. We had the plea­sure of work­ing with a superb client, hair styl­ist Jaclyn Beith of 7 Salon, and her tal­ented sup­port team: assis­tant Zoe Le, makeup artist Annaleis Ortiz, wardrobe spe­cial­ist Kristi Ble­ich, and mod­els Heather Hen­nessy and Brit­tany Mor­gan of TCM Models.

It’s no secret that Seat­tle City Hall is dear to my heart. I have pho­tographed it exten­sively and it remains my archi­tec­tural touch­stone. Last fall when Jaclyn Beith and I began dis­cussing the prospect of shoot­ing hair within a strong archi­tec­tural con­text, City Hall imme­di­ately popped into my head as the per­fect loca­tion … and Mar­i­lyn as the per­fect pho­tog­ra­pher. We all got together in Novem­ber, Jaclyn and Mar­i­lyn hit it off beau­ti­fully, and a date was set.

Plan­ning a shoot at City Hall is not with­out its red tape, but the final out­come was well worth it — we had the entire place to our­selves on a Sun­day! Watch­ing Mar­i­lyn work was a great learn­ing expe­ri­ence for me. I’m all about archi­tec­ture, things that don’t move, and she’s all about peo­ple. I was impressed by her steady, method­i­cal pace and uncanny abil­ity to con­vert rough ideas into stun­ning results. She’s a dream part­ner and I can’t wait for our next project where we’ll both be shoot­ing peo­ple. Did some­one say Chicago…?

Heather Hen­nessy, model

Jaclyn Beith, client

Brit­tany Mor­gan, model

Gor­geous model, gor­geous architecture

Mar­i­lyn shoot­ing Brittany

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